It wasn't Apple back peddling it was developers demanding native access. The same as developers for Palm demanding native APIs. Good luck with any halfway decent game running on HTML.
So will Mozilla and Google complain that they can't write a browser for RIM?
"Apple controls the only marketplace on their very popular platform"
And Microsoft controls the only marketplace for the XBox. And Sony controls the only marketplace for the Playstation And Nintendo controls the only marketplace for the Wii.
Any other company could do what they do. Most of their magic is simply marketing and/or blind loyalty.
If that's true, that any other company can do what they do, then why is every single phone manufacturer besides Apple and Samsung struggling? (i.e. Motorola, HTC, LG, Sony-Ericson, Nokia, and RIM?)
Why is the PC manufacturer that sells the most computers thinking about getting rid of their PC division?
You mean Apple under Cook may consider allowing Flash on their devices? The most recent complaints I've heard about the iPads from coworkers is that their shiny new toy doesn't seem to be able to show all of the webpages they look at.
Where have you been? Adobe is abandoning Flash for Android and every other mobile platform.
So is Google. And Ubuntu One. And about a dozen others. Oh, and FYI - Ubuntu One doesn't care if you're storing apps or data, mainly 'cuz they don't rifle through your belongings. Just saying. I can't speak for the others.
Yes Google is free -- but it doesn't back up your app data, SMS messages, phone log, etc....
So is Google. And Ubuntu One. And about a dozen others. Oh, and FYI - Ubuntu One doesn't care if you're storing apps or data, mainly 'cuz they don't rifle through your belongings. Just saying. I can't speak for the others.
So Ubuntu is a mobile OS?
on Android: 1. Install Titanium Backup & preferred online sync program (I prefer Ubuntu One, could ya tell?) to device. 2. Add folder for Titanium backups to sync list. 3. Set schedule for Titanium backup. 4. Have a beer and play some World of Goo while you wait for your buddy to download/install/open iTunes on his computer...BTW, what is this "plug in device" and "click on panel" that you speak of ?:D
Oh and yea, this only has to be done once as well.
You kind of forgot the whole "find out how to root your particular phone" part.
And the whole "it won't work completely if you're restoring from a phone with a different ROM"
First, why wouldn't you have iCloud? It's free for 5GB's (which doesn't include apps -- just data)
But to answer your question....
1. Install iTunes 2. Plug in your device 3. Click on device in right panel 4. Choose "Back up to this computer"
You only have to do that once. After that you can sync and backup wirelessly to your computer. It only copies data from your phone, any purchased apps, songs, books, etc get downloaded directly from iTunes.
How much more likely is someone to have a recent back up when it's done every day automatically than when you have to pull out the SD card and get (some) of your data on your computer? When you reinstall the app will it recognize that you copied the data for the app back to the SD card?
So for an iOS device, you enable iCloud on your source device.
With TitaniumBackup you have to....
Of course, you need an Android phone which â" you might have guessed from the preface â" must be âoerootedâ. That is, you must have âoesuper-userâ permissions on your device; except for developer devices, none have this as they are shipped. So this is something you have to take care of yourself. Also required is that you have the âoesuperuserâ application installed, which in most cases is done during the âoerooting processâ.
And instead of just logging into your iCloud account from your iOS device you have to,,,
f you just formatted your SD card, donâ(TM)t forget to copy the âoeTitaniumBackupâ folder (and possibly your license) back from your PC. Download Titanium Backup from Market If you intend to restore system data (eg: MMS/SMS) from a different phone/ROM, enable the âoeSystem data migrationâ option now. Click the Backup/Restore tab Click Menu (the button), Batch Click âoeRestore all missing apps + system data Reboot your phone Itâ(TM)s done ! The only thing you may have to adjust is usually your wallpaper/widgets.
And you still have to readjust some of your preferences manully.
And then it may not work with syetem apps (phone/sms, etc.) if the ROMs are too much different.
Google Market (or Play or whatever they're calling it these days) saves your list of apps. So does Amazon Appstore. SMS, history, and app data is easily backed up to the SD card.
Again, that is restoring your *apps* not the data created by your apps -- i.e. your saved games, etc.
Yes, yes I can. Of course, when you say "another device," you're opening a can of worms you probably didn't expect:
Switching from an AT&T locked iPhone to a Verizon locked iPhone is not restoring to "another device," it's restoring to the same device with a different IMEI. That would be more akin to, say, if my DX died and I got a new one via warranty, than actually switching devices.
The iPhone and iPhone 4S are different devices.
On Android all I have to do is back up my datas to the SD card,
How does that work with all of the data that is not actually on the SD card -- i.e. in the internal memory? How much more likely is someone to have a recent back up when it's done every day automatically than when you have to pull out the SD card and get (some) of your data on your computer? When you reinstall the app will it recognize that you copied the data for the app back to the SD card?
swap it to the new phone, and restore; how easy is it to restore data from an iPhone to a different (i.e., not another iPhone) device?
Just as easily -- you can restore from any iOS device to another iOS device with the same or later OS (iPads, iPhones, iPod Touhes). Of course you can only restore via iCloud on iOS 5.0+ devices.
No it doesn't restore your *app data*. It restores your contacts, email, calendar etc., but it won't restore your browser history, cookies, SMS data, the completed levels of Angry Birds, etc. It will redownload your apps but not your user data within the apps.
That's cute and all that your music, email, contacts, and calendar are all backed up with your Android. But what about the rest of your data?
I moved from an iPhone 4 running iOS 5 on AT&T to a Verizon iPhone 4S. I unpacked my phone, turned it on. It asked for my Wi Fi credentials and my username and password for ICloud. A few minutes later, all of my apps were restored with the same screen layout as my iPhone 4 with all the data in tact - including SMS messages, browser history and all of my app data. My iPhone 4S screen looks just like my iPhone 4.
Of course this is with iCloud but you can do the same with the backup stored locally. Are you going to tell me that you can back up all of your Android data and restore it to another device as seamlessly?
"Really? you still don't get the irrelevance of what amounts to nothing more than a press release backed by no actual action"
And you have exactly what evidence to the contrary -- that EMI wanted DRM free music before Apple?
"and you're still asserting this was an Apple led initiative without any evidence demonstrating such?"
At least I have shown statements with dates and times -- and you have shown....nothing.
"Along with Apple. Well, suprise suprise, why might that be I wonder?? It's like the evidence is right there in front of you but your brain selects out the bits about Apple that you just don't want to hear."
And the DOJ lawsuit is about the agency model versus the wholesale model and supposed "price fixing" -- which has nothing to do with DRM.
"Yes these things happened at the same time."
Maybe because Flash sucks on mobile? How on one hand can you advocate open cross platform support and on the other hand advocate..... Flash?
"It was part of the draft for some time as the preferred audio and video standard going forward. It was supported by Firefox, Chrome, and Opera, but was eventually dropped from the spec primarily due to opposition from Apple because they wanted to push a codec they held patents for instead"
"You totally didn't even understand the comment you made about the difference between feel good PR statements, and actual cold hard action did you? That's quite strange as it's not that difficult a concept to grasp. Still here's a link demonstrating EMI being the first to dabble in DRM free music:
And they were the first to dabble "after" Apple's "Thoughts on Music" in January 2007. The article was published in "February 2007". So how is it evidence that EMI led the initiative by showing an article that came after Apple made the offer?
"Another fallacy. You're making the implication that selling a relatively small fraction of their library DRM free at a higher cost point is in some way comparable to offering all major label's music DRM free at a standard low price point"
So how could Apple offer all major labels music DRM free without the label's permission? Why would *Apple* choose to offer one labels music DRM free but not the others if they had the (legal) ability to?
""So there are a lot of places that sell books DRM Free books from the major publishers where?"
Well what sort of books are you gunning for exactly? Perhaps this list can get you started?
Or is this another of your arbitrary definition tricks with your use of the term "mainstream" where you'll claim the likes of Pearson aren't "mainstream" enough?"
There are six major publishing houses. Again, you seem to think that Apple can arbitrarily allow media to be sold without DRM without the publishers permissions. It's no secret that there are six major publishers -- the ones being sued by the DOJ.
"Bwahahaha, lol yeah, that was a good one. It's like you actually believe your own bullshit. Yep, Apple was really welcoming to Flash, it didn't change it's terms to prevent use of interpreters and so forth in apps at all. Nope, none of that ever actually happened. So how are the fairies today? Going for dinner with Santa Claus tonight?"
So why did Adobe abandon Flash on non-Apple mobile platforms when it was fully embraced by Google?
"Yes, try using all of the new HTML5 form elements and let me know how you get on. I'm sure use of ogg/theora and ogg/vorbis will work great for you on Safari, "
Right because there is just so much ogg content out there. I'm sure that's on the top of most people's wish list....
"Yes, try using all of the new HTML5 form elements and let me know how you get on. I'm sure use of ogg/theora and ogg/vorbis will work great for you on Safari,"
So ogg is part of the HTML5 spec?
and the autocomplete attribute work wonders. How about the file API,
"and meter and progress elements? I'm sure you could create a great looking site for Safari with them too!"
If EMI was dabbling in selling DRM free music before Apple's "Thoughts on Music" , you should be able to find a link somewhere.
But that's neither here nor there. You were wrong. Apple didn't start selling DRM free music in response to Amazon et. al. How could they? They were doing it first - with mainstream music.
So there are a lot of places that sell books DRM Free books from the major publishers where?
As far as Flash, you really think its Apple's fault that Adobe abandoned Flash on mobile and not because it was slow and buggy. There are plenty of cross platform mobile APIs - PhoneGap, Mono,etc. But that's still besides the point. Even without DRM, you can't use a native IOS app on any other platform regardless.
And you are free to download and number of Webkit browsers for IOS. But do you have any evidence showing that Chrome and Opera have better compliance than Safari? WebM is still not supported on the hardware level by many mobile chipsets. You really don't want to do a video codec in software on mobile if you care about battery life.
Apple's "Thoughts on Music" essay was published before *anyone* was selling mainstream music DRM free. Emusic was selling music from a lot of independent artists no one had heard of. The essay came in response to the music industry's desire for Apple to license FairPlay.
Apple was selling DRM music from EMI before Amazon. Even after everyone else was selling music DRM free, Apple was moving up as the worlds largest retailer. In hindsight, if DRM free music would hurt Apple, then how do you explain that Apple is still the worlds #1 music retailer?
And you still didn't answer the question, where can you get mainstream video or books without DRM?
And for you to believe that Java's purported write once run anywhere is more than a pipe dream after over a decade and a half of evidence to the contrary shows a stunning amount of niavete. Even worse since any halfway performant app on Android uses the native API's.
As far as Apple pushing "Safari only", it's not like almost every single browser on almost every single mobile and embedded platform is not using Webkit....
Which browser has a higher degree of HTML compliance than Safari? Even Fitefox has abandoned trying to ignore H264 for WebM.
It's the same mindset that believed Steve's FUD when he blamed publishers for DRM in iTunes, saying he wanted rid of it but they just wouldn't let him, despite the fact his competitors like Amazon and eMusic at the time despite having much smaller stores and much less clout managed to get DRM free contracts from the publishers no problem.
A little history lesson....
1. When the iTunes store was first introduced, there was no way to buy individual songs from mainstream artist per song that you could basically burn to CD. Even Bill Gates said in emails that came out during trial how impressed he was at SJ's ability to negotiate such lenient restrictions.
2. The industry wanted Apple to license FairPlay to other manufacturers. Apple said no. Instead, if they were allowed to by the music companies, they would sale their music without DRM if allowed and there wouldn't be an interoperability problem. (January 2007 Steve Jobs "Thoughts on Music");
3, The music industry wanted variable prices (i.e. higher prices). Apple refused. In return, the music industry except for EMI and some independents refused to allow DRM free music.
4. Slashdot Wisdom (sic) was that Apple never intended to sale DRM free music or license FairPlay and they were waiting to call Apple's bluff.
5. Apple started selling DRM free music from EMI *before* Amazon music store came online.
6. Apple started selling the iPhone but was not allowed to sell over the cellular network without a new license. The music industry refused because Apple wouldn't sell at variable prices.
7. The music industry started letting everyone else sell DRM free music to break Apple's monopoly -- it didn't work (around August 2007).
8. Apple wanted to be able to sale music via the cell network so they caved to the variable pricing.
it was about making sure that when the non user replaceable battery in your iPad ran out after 18 months to 2 years you couldn't fuck off to a competitor with your content very easily, no you had to buy Apple again.
Do you realize how many Android phones and tablets are now coming with non-removable batteries?
With Apple it's always about control, DRM in iTunes was entirely about control, it was about making sure that when the non user replaceable battery in your iPad ran out after 18 months to 2 years you couldn't fuck off to a competitor with your content very easily, no you had to buy Apple again.
Which "content"? Apple been selling DRM free music for four years. How do you propose running even a non-DRM'd app compiled for iOS on another device?
fail to see how these companies could validate with 100% certainty that the device reported stolen actually belong to the owners that claimed to own them. This is important; because if you can't validate the owner with 100% certainty, then you open the door to situations where person A falsly reports persons B's phone stolen and gets it bricked. This would be a denial of service prank/attach and I'm sure it would be a much larger liability for AT&T than simply letting theives reactivate a device that was obtained nefariously. Are they going to make everyone that claims to have a phone stolen produce a receipt to validate ownersihp? To requre AT&T to get involved would be a disaster. When you require/allow corporations to get involved in things that should ONLY be law enforcement investigations, then you open a whole new can of worms.
Isn't this the same company that had enough certainty to ship you a $700 device for $200 and took your word that you would pay them back by signing a 2 year contract?
Please learn the difference between "fiscal quarter" and "calendar quarter". Didn't you think it was a little strange that Apple reported their "fourth quarter results" on the 18th of November 2011?
Apple's fiscal fourth quarter is calendar quarter 3.
Additionally, I never discussed Apple's net income. "Apples quarterly profit from their last quarter was just over $6 billion " Apple profit is $6 billion, again from the same report. Profit is not equal to net income.
Uhh, net income is profit....
All my math came from legally filed financial reports.
All of which you were unable to read properly.....
You still do not comment on the math. Per Samsungs financials they had $3 billion profit from handset sales. Apple had $6 billion in profits (total not just iPhone). So unless Apple loses money on everything but handset sales Apple cannot have an 85% share of the profits. Assuming 100% of Apple profit were from iPhone between Samsung and Apple alone that would be $9 billion profit with Samsung pulling in 33% of the profits.
Didn't need to comment on your "math". You quoted the wrong quarter.
You do realize that Apple makes more than just smartphones, don't you?
The article only took smartphones into account.
And from the article I linked to discussing the Samsung $5 billion: "“(While) 60-70 per cent of (Samsung’s) profit came from handset sales this quarter,... with memory chip prices rising, chips will play a big part in second quarter profits,” said Kim Sung-in, a chip industry analyst at Kiwoom Securities."
That's *handset sales* not all of which are smartphones -- Samsung sells a whole lot of dumbphones and not even all of them are Android phones. Samsung also sales Windows Phones and their own bada phones,
"Chip sales" also have nothing to do with Android -- especially with Apple being their largest external customer.
Apple don't say. But they do say "The Company sold 17.07 million iPhones in the quarter. Apple sold 11.12 million iPads during the quarter. The Company sold 4.89 million Macs during the quarter. Apple sold 6.62 million iPods." So less then 50% of the devices sold by Apple were handsets.
That's nice and all, but 70% of Apple's revenue comes from the iPhone and you're off by quarter....Apple sold 37 million iPhones during the quarter ending in December.
Slashdot Mirror
It wasn't Apple back peddling it was developers demanding native access. The same as developers for Palm demanding native APIs. Good luck with any halfway decent game running on HTML.
So will Mozilla and Google complain that they can't write a browser for RIM?
"Apple controls the only marketplace on their very popular platform"
And Microsoft controls the only marketplace for the XBox.
And Sony controls the only marketplace for the Playstation
And Nintendo controls the only marketplace for the Wii.
"Apple wouldn't dare do it to Amazon or eBay"
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218629/Amazon_caves_to_Apple_drops_Kindle_s_in_app_button
"Doing it better" in business means more profitably or at least with better margins. Which company is "doing it better than Apple"?
If that's true, that any other company can do what they do, then why is every single phone manufacturer besides Apple and Samsung struggling? (i.e. Motorola, HTC, LG, Sony-Ericson, Nokia, and RIM?)
Why is the PC manufacturer that sells the most computers thinking about getting rid of their PC division?
So if Flash for mobile was so great, then why did Adobe abandon it?
Where have you been? Adobe is abandoning Flash for Android and every other mobile platform.
http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2011/11/flash-focus.html
HTC:
http://www.businessinsider.com/htcs-shares-tumble-cfo-change-samsung-launch-weigh-2012-4
Motorola
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/26/us-motorolamobility-idUSTRE80P23W20120126
LG:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-07-28/lg-electronics-profit-falls-33-after-company-falls-behind-in-smartphones.html
and
Sony:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/sony-ericsson-posts-surprise-loss-in-its-final-quarter/67399
The only mobile company making real money from Android is Samsung.
Yes Google is free -- but it doesn't back up your app data, SMS messages, phone log, etc....
So Ubuntu is a mobile OS?
You kind of forgot the whole "find out how to root your particular phone" part.
And the whole "it won't work completely if you're restoring from a phone with a different ROM"
First, why wouldn't you have iCloud? It's free for 5GB's (which doesn't include apps -- just data)
But to answer your question....
1. Install iTunes
2. Plug in your device
3. Click on device in right panel
4. Choose "Back up to this computer"
You only have to do that once. After that you can sync and backup wirelessly to your computer. It only copies data from your phone, any purchased apps, songs, books, etc get downloaded directly from iTunes.
So for an iOS device, you enable iCloud on your source device.
With TitaniumBackup you have to....
Of course, you need an Android phone which â" you might have guessed from the preface â" must be âoerootedâ. That is, you must have âoesuper-userâ permissions on your device; except for developer devices, none have this as they are shipped. So this is something you have to take care of yourself. Also required is that you have the âoesuperuserâ application installed, which in most cases is done during the âoerooting processâ.
And instead of just logging into your iCloud account from your iOS device you have to,,,
f you just formatted your SD card, donâ(TM)t forget to copy the âoeTitaniumBackupâ folder (and possibly your license) back from your PC.
Download Titanium Backup from Market
If you intend to restore system data (eg: MMS/SMS) from a different phone/ROM, enable the âoeSystem data migrationâ option now.
Click the Backup/Restore tab
Click Menu (the button), Batch
Click âoeRestore all missing apps + system data
Reboot your phone
Itâ(TM)s done ! The only thing you may have to adjust is usually your wallpaper/widgets.
And you still have to readjust some of your preferences manully.
And then it may not work with syetem apps (phone/sms, etc.) if the ROMs are too much different.
But you still thing seamless is....
http://www.titaniumtrack.com/kb/titanium-backup-kb/titanium-backup-user-guide.html
http://www.titaniumtrack.com/kb/titanium-backup-kb/titanium-backup-technical-faq.html
http://www.titaniumtrack.com/kb/titanium-backup-kb/titanium-backup-troubleshooting.html
http://www.titaniumtrack.com/kb/titanium-backup-kb/titanium-backup-tips-suggestions.html
Compared to:
Log in to iCloud......
Again, that is restoring your *apps* not the data created by your apps -- i.e. your saved games, etc.
The iPhone and iPhone 4S are different devices.
How does that work with all of the data that is not actually on the SD card -- i.e. in the internal memory? How much more likely is someone to have a recent back up when it's done every day automatically than when you have to pull out the SD card and get (some) of your data on your computer? When you reinstall the app will it recognize that you copied the data for the app back to the SD card?
Just as easily -- you can restore from any iOS device to another iOS device with the same or later OS (iPads, iPhones, iPod Touhes). Of course you can only restore via iCloud on iOS 5.0+ devices.
No it doesn't restore your *app data*. It restores your contacts, email, calendar etc., but it won't restore your browser history, cookies, SMS data, the completed levels of Angry Birds, etc. It will redownload your apps but not your user data within the apps.
That's cute and all that your music, email, contacts, and calendar are all backed up with your Android. But what about the rest of your data?
I moved from an iPhone 4 running iOS 5 on AT&T to a Verizon iPhone 4S. I unpacked my phone, turned it on. It asked for my Wi Fi credentials and my username and password for ICloud. A few minutes later, all of my apps were restored with the same screen layout as my iPhone 4 with all the data in tact - including SMS messages, browser history and all of my app data. My iPhone 4S screen looks just like my iPhone 4.
Of course this is with iCloud but you can do the same with the backup stored locally. Are you going to tell me that you can back up all of your Android data and restore it to another device as seamlessly?
"Really? you still don't get the irrelevance of what amounts to nothing more than a press release backed by no actual action"
And you have exactly what evidence to the contrary -- that EMI wanted DRM free music before Apple?
"and you're still asserting this was an Apple led initiative without any evidence demonstrating such?"
At least I have shown statements with dates and times -- and you have shown....nothing.
"Along with Apple. Well, suprise suprise, why might that be I wonder?? It's like the evidence is right there in front of you but your brain selects out the bits about Apple that you just don't want to hear."
And the DOJ lawsuit is about the agency model versus the wholesale model and supposed "price fixing" -- which has nothing to do with DRM.
"Yes these things happened at the same time."
Maybe because Flash sucks on mobile? How on one hand can you advocate open cross platform support and on the other hand advocate..... Flash?
"It was part of the draft for some time as the preferred audio and video standard going forward. It was supported by Firefox, Chrome, and Opera, but was eventually dropped from the spec primarily due to opposition from Apple because they wanted to push a codec they held patents for instead"
So did Apple also push H.264 on the other 30+ licensors?
http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/AVC/Pages/Licensors.aspx
Did Apple push it on the Blu-Ray association? Adobe?
How much hardware support is there for ogg? How good is it compared to H.264?
You do realize there are at least a dozen companies that are part of the patent pool for H.264 don't you?
"You totally didn't even understand the comment you made about the difference between feel good PR statements, and actual cold hard action did you? That's quite strange as it's not that difficult a concept to grasp. Still here's a link demonstrating EMI being the first to dabble in DRM free music:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/26/emi_drm_talks_breakup/"
And they were the first to dabble "after" Apple's "Thoughts on Music" in January 2007. The article was published in "February 2007". So how is it evidence that EMI led the initiative by showing an article that came after Apple made the offer?
"Another fallacy. You're making the implication that selling a relatively small fraction of their library DRM free at a higher cost point is in some way comparable to offering all major label's music DRM free at a standard low price point"
So how could Apple offer all major labels music DRM free without the label's permission? Why would *Apple* choose to offer one labels music DRM free but not the others if they had the (legal) ability to?
""So there are a lot of places that sell books DRM Free books from the major publishers where?"
Well what sort of books are you gunning for exactly? Perhaps this list can get you started?
http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/E-book_stores#Dealers_and_Publishers_without_DRM
Or this one?
http://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2011/02/07/where-to-get-drm-free-ebooks-for-kindle-sony-nook-and-other-ereaders/
Or is this another of your arbitrary definition tricks with your use of the term "mainstream" where you'll claim the likes of Pearson aren't "mainstream" enough?"
There are six major publishing houses. Again, you seem to think that Apple can arbitrarily allow media to be sold without DRM without the publishers permissions. It's no secret that there are six major publishers -- the ones being sued by the DOJ.
"Bwahahaha, lol yeah, that was a good one. It's like you actually believe your own bullshit. Yep, Apple was really welcoming to Flash, it didn't change it's terms to prevent use of interpreters and so forth in apps at all. Nope, none of that ever actually happened. So how are the fairies today? Going for dinner with Santa Claus tonight?"
So why did Adobe abandon Flash on non-Apple mobile platforms when it was fully embraced by Google?
"Yes, try using all of the new HTML5 form elements and let me know how you get on. I'm sure use of ogg/theora and ogg/vorbis will work great for you on Safari, "
Right because there is just so much ogg content out there. I'm sure that's on the top of most people's wish list....
"Yes, try using all of the new HTML5 form elements and let me know how you get on. I'm sure use of ogg/theora and ogg/vorbis will work great for you on Safari,"
So ogg is part of the HTML5 spec?
and the autocomplete attribute work wonders. How about the file API,
"and meter and progress elements? I'm sure you could create a great looking site for Safari with them too!"
http://caniuse.com/progressmeter
And you also can't use them with the Android browser....
"I'm guessing you've not actually ever had any involvement with an HTML5 project have you"
Yes plenty.
If EMI was dabbling in selling DRM free music before Apple's "Thoughts on Music" , you should be able to find a link somewhere.
But that's neither here nor there. You were wrong. Apple didn't start selling DRM free music in response to Amazon et. al. How could they? They were doing it first - with mainstream music.
So there are a lot of places that sell books DRM Free books from the major publishers where?
As far as Flash, you really think its Apple's fault that Adobe abandoned Flash on mobile and not because it was slow and buggy. There are plenty of cross platform mobile APIs - PhoneGap, Mono,etc. But that's still besides the point. Even without DRM, you can't use a native IOS app on any other platform regardless.
And you are free to download and number of Webkit browsers for IOS. But do you have any evidence showing that Chrome and Opera have better compliance than Safari? WebM is still not supported on the hardware level by many mobile chipsets. You really don't want to do a video codec in software on mobile if you care about battery life.
Apple's "Thoughts on Music" essay was published before *anyone* was selling mainstream music DRM free. Emusic was selling music from a lot of independent artists no one had heard of. The essay came in response to the music industry's desire for Apple to license FairPlay.
Apple was selling DRM music from EMI before Amazon. Even after everyone else was selling music DRM free, Apple was moving up as the worlds largest retailer. In hindsight, if DRM free music would hurt Apple, then how do you explain that Apple is still the worlds #1 music retailer?
And you still didn't answer the question, where can you get mainstream video or books without DRM?
And for you to believe that Java's purported write once run anywhere is more than a pipe dream after over a decade and a half of evidence to the contrary shows a stunning amount of niavete. Even worse since any halfway performant app on Android uses the native API's.
As far as Apple pushing "Safari only", it's not like almost every single browser on almost every single mobile and embedded platform is not using Webkit....
Which browser has a higher degree of HTML compliance than Safari? Even Fitefox has abandoned trying to ignore H264 for WebM.
A little history lesson....
1. When the iTunes store was first introduced, there was no way to buy individual songs from mainstream artist per song that you could basically burn to CD. Even Bill Gates said in emails that came out during trial how impressed he was at SJ's ability to negotiate such lenient restrictions.
2. The industry wanted Apple to license FairPlay to other manufacturers. Apple said no. Instead, if they were allowed to by the music companies, they would sale their music without DRM if allowed and there wouldn't be an interoperability problem. (January 2007 Steve Jobs "Thoughts on Music");
This was original posted on the front page of Apple.com
http://macdailynews.com/2007/02/06/apple_ceo_steve_jobs_posts_rare_open_letter_thoughts_on_music/
3, The music industry wanted variable prices (i.e. higher prices). Apple refused. In return, the music industry except for EMI and some independents refused to allow DRM free music.
4. Slashdot Wisdom (sic) was that Apple never intended to sale DRM free music or license FairPlay and they were waiting to call Apple's bluff.
5. Apple started selling DRM free music from EMI *before* Amazon music store came online.
6. Apple started selling the iPhone but was not allowed to sell over the cellular network without a new license. The music industry refused because Apple wouldn't sell at variable prices.
7. The music industry started letting everyone else sell DRM free music to break Apple's monopoly -- it didn't work (around August 2007).
8. Apple wanted to be able to sale music via the cell network so they caved to the variable pricing.
Do you realize how many Android phones and tablets are now coming with non-removable batteries?
Which "content"? Apple been selling DRM free music for four years. How do you propose running even a non-DRM'd app compiled for iOS on another device?
Who sells non-DRM'd mainstream video?
Isn't this the same company that had enough certainty to ship you a $700 device for $200 and took your word that you would pay them back by signing a 2 year contract?
So no one else in the world can make screens, memory, and storage?
So 25% of all smart phone buyers worldwide are "zealots"?
The article only took smartphones into account.
That's *handset sales* not all of which are smartphones -- Samsung sells a whole lot of dumbphones and not even all of them are Android phones. Samsung also sales Windows Phones and their own bada phones,
"Chip sales" also have nothing to do with Android -- especially with Apple being their largest external customer.
That's nice and all, but 70% of Apple's revenue comes from the iPhone and you're off by quarter....Apple sold 37 million iPhones during the quarter ending in December.
And Apple's net income was $13 Billion not $6 Billion....
http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:AAPL&fstype=ii
You do realize that Samsung makes more than just smartphones, don't you?
http://www.techspot.com/news/48038-apple-samsung-account-for-95-of-all-handset-profits.html
With Apple making 80% of the profit and Samsung making the other 15%.
How are HTC, Motorola, LG, Sony-Ericson, etc. doing?
http://9to5mac.com/2011/09/21/google-23rds-of-our-mobile-search-comes-from-apples-ios/